PALENQUE
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE
GANADORES Y SELECCIONES
GANADOR
PALENQUE LARGOMETRAJE
NACIONAL
“ XANTOLO, CELEBRATION OF THE DEAD ”
DIR. LUIS ANGEL SAGAHON, KAREN LINNET ESLAVA
MEXICO
INTERNACIONAL
FINALISTA
“ ONDJELUA ” – THE RAIN FESTIVAL
DIR. EURICO “ GIGIO ” PEREIRA
ANGOLA
GANADOR
PALENQUE CORTOMETRAJE
THE LEGACY OF THE EGYPTOLOGIST
DIR. JOSE PADRO PIEDRAFITA
ESPAÑA
GANADOR
DOCUMENTAL LARGOMETRAJE
THE ASSYRIAN LEGACY
Dir. Janos Buda
Hungria
GANADOR
DOCUMENTAL CORTOMETRAJE
NACIONAL
NAHUI OLLIN
Dir. Guadalupe Merlo
Mexico
INTERNACIONAL
RUBONI COMMUNITY
Dir. Georgios Voursoukis
Uganda
GANADOR
ARQUEOLOGIA LARGOMETRAJE
EXCAVATING ANCIENT KYTHNOS
Dir. Yiannis Spiliopoulos
Grecia
GANADOR
ARQUEOLOGIA CORTOMETRAJE
THROUGH THE LEGEND THAT LIVED IN
– THE TIMELESS BEAT OF MYTILENE CASTLE
Dir. Lydia Tsenta
Grecia
GANADOR
ANTROPOLOGIA LARGOMETRAJE
SEARCHING FOR THE PARADISE ON EARTH
Dir. Sam Osmanagich
Bosnia y Herzegovina
GANADOR
ANTROPOLOGIA CORTOMETRAJE
MARY LEFKOWITZ & WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE
Dir. Nikos Dayandas
Greece
GANADOR DERECHOS HUMANOS
SHEOL
Dir. Arnaud Sauli
Francia
VIDEO MUSICAL
GANADOR
EARTH
Dir. Yura Katynsky
Ucrania
ANIMACION
GANADOR
BALAM
Dir. Guillermo Casarin
Mexico
GANADOR
THE QUEEN OF EGYPT
Dir. Erwan Le Gal
Francia
MEJOR DIRECTOR
LARGOMETRAJE
“ XANTOLO, CELEBRATION OF THE DEAD ”
DIR. LUIS ANGEL SAGAHON, KAREN LINNET ESLAVA
MEXICO
CORTOMETRAJE
THROUGH THE LEGEND THAT LIVED IN
– THE TIMELESS BEAT OF MYTILENE CASTLE
Dir. Lydia Tsenta
Grecia
MEJOR NARRATIVA
ZIPPED
Dir. Samukele Deborah Khumalo-Dludla
Sudafrica
MEJOR EDICION
MENCION HONORABLE
MADRE SONNO
Dir. Luca Gasparini, Andrea Zambelli
Italia
CORTOMETRAJES GANADORES
DRAMA
Summer Games
Dir. Maurizio Barbarossa
Italia
COMEDIA
Dance Slave
Dir. Nastassia Aleksiyevich
Belarusia
HORROR
Far away from my town ( Lejos de mi Pueblo )
Dir. Carlos Arjona
Mexico
CIENCIA FICCION
The Desperate End
Dir. Narboto Arnarbaev, Robin Townsend
Kyrgyztan
NUAR
Stray Dog
Dir. Lai Cheuk Nam
Hong Kong
A documentary focused on the most important tradition of the Huasteca region.
The film's mystique is to present the Xantolo festival from different points of view, with the participation and opinion of historians, chroniclers, professors and different experts on the subject, attempting to cover the complexity of this celebration through testimonies and sequences.
With a cast, production and artistic participation mostly made up of people from Hidalgo, “Xantolo: the festival of the dead” proves to be a cinematographic work like no other, a production where Huasteca culture is exalted and Hidalgo talent shines.
In the forgotten heart of the Huíla province in Angola, there exists an ancient people surviving the modern world. A people woven from rituals and stories, their wellspring of culture slowly drying up, struggling to endure in a technological, globalized world. Through the Sacred Ox procession, the Mumuíla initiate the Ondjélua. A tradition upholding culture - and hope - with ancient wisdom, yearning to be shared.
Dr. Josep Padró Parcerisa is one of the first Spanish Egyptologists and probably the last Catalan Egyptologist. Despite his efforts to find a successor, with his retirement, the only chair of Egyptology in Catalan universities disappears, one of the few remaining in Spain.
Aside from teaching, his life has revolved around another personal project, the excavation of the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, one of the largest in Egypt and the largest excavated by a Spanish mission.
At 73 years old, Dr. Padró faces what will probably be his last mission, trying to ensure the continuity of the excavation of Oxyrhynchus and Egyptology in Spain.
There’s two things that make a trip to Iraq difficult: First, finding the courage to actually go there, the second is to return home without any issues… The drone attack that I’ve witnessed from the eroplane window is not a so-common experience, nor is Iraq’s archaeological heritage, its wild beauty or its unique culture. It’s difficult to get used to seeing the armed guards, but the colour combination of the Kurdish flag can calm you down somehow. I came here, to accompany a group of brave Hungarian archaeologists,to explore the Kurdistan region in Iraq, Szulejmánijja where lies one of the most interesting archeological sites of the area.
Director - János Buda
Nahui Ollin is an ethnographic documentary of research started in Mexico years ago. In the research, the collective construction of the narrative was fundamental for me. In a context of social, economic, and climatic crisis like the current one, the linear and anthropocentric thinking imposed on other cultures with force and violence must be abandoned in favor of a circular and ecocentric perspective. When we regard the environment, home, people, animals, and plants as equal living entities, without any claims of superiority, our view of everything, including ourselves, changes. Words like relationship and care become synonymous with revolution. The discovery of the other within ourselves through encounters helps us to value diversity as a source of cultural and spiritual enrichment.
Director Biography - Guadalupe Merlo
A community in West Uganda live beneath the mountain of Rwenzori. The sunstability of their life , their customs and their survival is depended on the forest.
The documentary refers to the archaeological excavations carried out on the island of Kythnos in
the Aegean Sea in Greece. For twenty years, the professor of classical archeology at the University
of Thessaly, Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, has been excavating Ancient Kythnos every summer
with the help of students
The castle of Mytilene has existed throughout the ages, changing forms over the centuries. From antiquity to the present day, it stands as the emblem of the city of Mytilene, unshakeable. Thousands of stories have been written on its walls.
Anthropologist Dr Sam Osmanagich is searching for the Lost Paradise on Earth, Land of Immortality, where supreme deity Enki lived for thousand of years. Has he found it in the beautiful Kingdom of Bahrain?
A short documentary inspired by the work of renowned philologist Mary Lefkowitz which, combined with archaeological evidence, has lead to a better understanding of the complex and often surprising roles women played in Ancient Greek society